People from Prague

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 221. Chapters: Franz Kafka, Johannes Kepler, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Václav Havel, Václav Klaus, Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg, Jakob Hlasek, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Rainer Maria Rilke, Bernard Bolzano, Jan Kaplický, List of Charles University rectors, Josef Myslivecek, Anton Reicha, Crispin Glover, Ernest Gellner, Josef and Ctirad MaSín, Karel Schwarzenberg, Helena Vondrácková, Miloslav Mecír, Jan Hammer, Gerty Cori, Yehuda Bauer, Paul Ritter, Erwin Schulhoff, Vladimir Rubes, Augustine Herman, Karel Husa, Egon Erwin Kisch, Ignaz Moscheles, Michael Kunze, Elizabeth of Luxembourg, Zora Wolfová, Eduard Hanslick, Max Brod, Karl von Terzaghi, Zdenek LukáS, Jirí Brezina, Karl Kautsky, Albin Schram, Saul Friedländer, Charles Fried, Leopold von Mildenstein, Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Alex Baumann, Jan svankmajer, Jirí Belohlávek, Jirí Grossmann, Karel HaSler, Rudolf Friml, Daniel Micka, David Popper, Karel Gott, Stanislav Grof, Zecharias Frankel, Herbert Lom, Franz Werfel, Jan Palach, Adolph Aloys von Braun, Jaromír Weinberger, Vilém Flusser, Jonathan Eybeschutz, Peter Glaser, Julius Fucík (journalist), Franz Schulz, Lotta Hitschmanova, Josef Jirí Kolár, Lída Baarová, Jan Masaryk, Hans Kelsen, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Janet Malcolm, Jerome of Prague, Stanislav Gross, Lenka Pichlíková-Burke, Jirí Ruzek, Heda Margolius Kovály, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Milena Jesenská, Oldrich Nový, Leopold Eidlitz, Józef Czapski, Zdenek Bazant, Vladimír spidla, Jan Werich, Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Jan Rychlík, Jáchym Topol, Antonín Holý, Wenceslaus Hollar, Otto Jelinek, Erna Furman, Petr Vopenka, Jaroslav HaSek, Bertha von Suttner, Avital Ronell, Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, Vilém Blodek, Vladimír Vondrácek. Excerpt: Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Kafka heavily influenced genres like existentialism. His works, such as "" ("The Metamorphosis"), (The Trial), and (The Castle), are filled with the themes and archetypes of alienation, physical and psychological brutality, parent-child conflict, characters on a terrifying quest, and mystical transformations. Franz Kafka, etching by Jan Hladík, 1978Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and trained as a lawyer. After completing his legal education, Kafka obtained employment with an insurance company. He began to write short stories in his spare time, and for the rest of his life complained about the little time he had to devote to what he came to regard as his calling. He also regretted having to devote so much attention to his ("day job", literally "bread job"). Kafka preferred to communicate by letter; he wrote hundreds of letters to family and close female friends, including his father, his fiancée Felice Bauer, and his youngest sister Ottla. He had a complicated and troubled relationship with his father that had a major impact on his writing, and he was conflicted over his Jewishness and felt it had little to do with him, although it heavily influenced his writing. Only a few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: the story collections (Contemplation) and (A Country Doctor), and individual stories (such as "") in literary magazines. He prepared the story collection (A Hunger Artist) for print, but it was not published ...